What worked for me: - Use the .tgz option, not .zip - I had to manually create several large albums by year, and then created a takeout archive with just that

What worked for me: - Use the .tgz option, not .zip - I had to manually create several large albums by year, and then created a takeout archive with just that album. Then created another archive with the next album, ... You may not need to do this, try the whole enchilada first. My wife's photo takeout didn't require this, for example. - I had to pick smaller archive sizes. 8gb worked for me. Yes, it was a lot of chunks. - I had to switch to Chrome (not Firefox, which is my daily driver) before the download would complete successfully. - Downloading to my NAS directly made it fail. Had to use local disk. - wired, not wifi Even with all these in place, my ISP sometimes didn't allow downloads to finish successfully. I had to run them early in the morning over several days. I had to go through and redo several chunks that corrupted themselves somehow. Verify the chunks with `gunzip -t` Also: now that you've got your photos and videos back, you might be interested in PhotoStructure! Details are in my profile. I'm providing free access to the beta in exchange for feedback.